Quotes About Naivety

Childhood comes at a time in your life when you are too young to understand what you are going through. And you're too young to understand that you are too young to understand.

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

We have been called naive as if it were a dirty word We have been called innocent as though with shame our cheeks should burn So We visited with the careful idols of cynicism to learn to sneer and pant and walk so as not to feel the scales of judgment rub wrongly But we say, some things must remain simple some things must remain untouched and pure

What a desperate, pathetic fool I was. Time after time, my "friends" had shown me their true colors. Yet, I still wanted to believe they were sorry for causing me pain. p. 128

The weakness of humanity is never willingly perceived by young minds.

At eighteen I had no proper understanding of the ways that constituted encroachment.

Yes. I was such a bumpkin then ... I was as naive a country mushroom as you could meet.

The kid looked up, her bright blue eyes a little picture of health. So innocent and trusting, Rosie thought. The look we all had before life comes crashing in and sweeps it all away.

She was blissfully unaware of her peril.

Just as a cooling pot gives off heat, so all through youth and adolescence we give off calories of virtue. That's what's called ingenuousness.

The trouble is that sometimes she gets foolish ideas in her head and doesn't know what she's doing.

Gloria has a very young soul-irresponsible, as much as anything else. She has no sense of responsibility. She's sparklin, Aunt Catherine, said Richard pleasantly. A sense of responsibility would spoil her. She's too pretty.

Wilson? He thinks she goes to see her sister in New York. He's so dumb he doesn't know he's alive.

Mi fa piacere che sia femmina. E spero che sarà una stupida... è la cosa migliore per una bambina, a questo mondo, una bella e piccola stupida.

She was too stupid to pull off something like that. "You're

Money brings you security and choice. You can make decisions in a different way if you have a lot of money. But when you have nothing, you have a naivety, and a more fearless attitude because you have nothing to lose.

When I entered the film industry, I didn't know anything about acting.

I was kind of ignorant. Being naive - 'who cares, how many people in the world, okay, my vote won't count' - that's kind of ignorant thinking, and I totally migrated from that. I clearly took that for granted for eight to 10 years.

The appeal of the Golden Age heroes for me is their simplicity, even their naivety - they represent the fundamental building blocks of the whole superhero genre, whether it's a 'super' man able to lift cars, or a vigilante who terrorises criminals at night like Batman.

When I look at 'Napoleon Dynamite's style I'm reminded of how I spoke when I was an eight-year-old boy. It was just like capturing the essence of, 'Duh!' It was just like the stuff that I would say when I was like eight, nine, ten years old.

When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.

If a man hits you once, he'll hit you again, they say. And the same is true for lying. But I stayed, and I listened and I believed. What a fool I've been!

I was as foolish as I had ever been, no, even stupider, for the gullibility of a boy is fatuousness in a man.

it's the good and open hearted people, those with the most to give, who are the most vulnerable. Because they think everyone is honest as they are.